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Friday, December 22, 2017

Wow! The Design Team really enjoyed seeing how our challenge players took some of our sketches from 2017 and used them to make lovely, festive CAS cards! We have chosen the
following cards as our Weekly Winners. In order of entry into the
challenge, we congratulate:

Thank you to all of our challenge participants! We wish all of you a
joyous holiday season, and we hope to see you creating with us again in the new year! Be sure to join us on Tuesday, January 9, 2018 as we start another year of clean and simple colour and sketch challenges.

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

On behalf of the CAS Colours & Sketches Design Team, I want to express our gratitude to
our challenge participants for the support you give us by
joining in our challenges each week. *YOU* are what keeps our blog
going, and we are truly thankful for all of you!

We would like to wish the happiest of holidays to all of our
participants, and the best of everything to you in 2018. No matter what festivities you celebrate, we hope you
will experience the love, wonder, peace, joy, and magic of this special season.

For the next few weeks we'll be taking a break so that our followers and our design team can spend
time with their
families and loved ones. Look for our
next challenge to start on Tuesday, January 9, 2018. Until then, take
care, and
keep being creative!

Friday, December 15, 2017

Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's challenge! We
loved seeing what everyone created!

We realized just before Challenge #252 closed that it was misrepresented on a couple of challenge listing blogs to mean "use colours seen during this season", rather than to take one of our colour challenges from 2017 and make a seasonal card with it. Since that was beyond our control, we didn't have the heart to disqualify from our Weekly Winners voting any entries that otherwise met our challenge requirements of making a clean and simple styled card. So, the Design Team has chosen the
following cards as our Weekly Winners. In order of entry into the
challenge, we congratulate:

If you haven't played along with us yet this week, there is still time to join in our current challenge: #253 - Seasonal Sketch.
We'd like for you to choose one of our sketch challenges from 2017 and make a seasonal card using it. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S.
time/11:00 p.m. London U.K. time Monday, December 18, 2017 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love to have you join us!

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Hello, crafting friends! We have another festive challenge for you this
week. This time we're giving a seasonal spin to our sketch challenges
from the past year:

You can view the graphics from all of our sketch challenges by clicking
on the Past Sketch Challenges tab at the top of the page. The ones from 2017 start at Challenge #205. Feel free
to flip or rotate the sketch when creating your card. You may also
change the shape of your card; if the sketch is drawn as a square, you
may manipulate it into a rectangle; if the sketch is drawn as a
rectangle, you're allowed to make it into a square. So long as we can
clearly see how the sketch inspired your card, it's all good!

You may make your card for any specific December holiday, or just simply
reflect a wintry scene. If you're from the southern hemisphere, a
summery card would be appropriate, too!

In your blog post, please be sure to note which sketch you've used for
your card. Make sure you've chosen one from 2017! Here are the seasonal takes from our Design Team:

We would like to extend many, many thanks to everyone who has joined in
our challenges throughout the year. We enjoy creating with you and we love
seeing your artwork each week!

We're going to be taking a holiday break after this week's challenge
so that our challenge participants and our design team can spend time
celebrating with those they love. The winners of this week's challenge
will be announced on December 22, 2017. We'll be returning with new challenges on January 9, 2018.

Friday, December 08, 2017

Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's challenge! We loved seeing what everyone created! The Design Team has chosen the following cards as our Weekly Winners. In order of entry into the challenge, we congratulate:

If you haven't played along with us yet this week, there is still time to join in our current challenge: #252. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time/11:00 p.m. London U.K. time Monday, December 11 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love to have you join us!

Tuesday, December 05, 2017

Hello! Here at CAS Colours & Sketches we're getting ready for the
upcoming holiday season by revisiting our challenges from the past 11
months and turning them into seasonal creations. As usual, we're
starting off the month with a colour challenge:

You can view the graphics from all of our colour challenges by clicking
on the Past Colour Challenges tab at the top of the page. The challenges for 2017 start with Challenge #204.

We've
used Stampin' Up colour names for reference, but you may use any
companies' products for your cards as long as you match our colours as
closely as possible. You may also use neutral colours (white, cream,
kraft, brown, grey, or black) for card layers, sentiments, and image
outlines. However, in order to be considered for our Weekly Winners, you must not
use any other colours.

Your seasonal card can be for Christmas, Hanukkah, or any other December
holiday. If you live south of the equator and are enjoying summer,
feel welcome to make a card appropriate for that!

We've noted the challenges that our Design Team members have chosen, and
we ask that you do the same in your post when you share your card.

We had an amazing turnout for our recent Design Team call! We have selected three people to join our team full-time starting in January 2018, and we'll be introducing them this week and next. Today we have one of our new members playing along with us. Please help us give a warm welcome to Jeanne, who has used Challenge #211 for this week's challenge:

Since we know this is a busy time for most people, we've decided to
have only two challenges this month. We don't want to short change any
of our guest designers from a normal term of four challenges, so we're
putting our guest designer program on hold until January. Next week
we'll be turning a sketch challenge from 2017 into a holiday card.
Beginning December 19, we'll take a break and return with new challenges in January 2018.

Friday, December 01, 2017

Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's challenge! We loved seeing what everyone created! To find out if you won a prize in our birthday celebration, be sure to check out yesterday's post.

The Design Team has chosen the following cards as our Weekly Winners. There was a tie in our voting, so we have an extra Winner this time! In order of entry into the challenge, we congratulate:

If you haven't played along with us yet this week, there is still time to join in our current sketch challenge: #251. You have until 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time/11:00 p.m. London U.K. time Monday, December 4, 2017 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love to have you join us!